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Year 4 Mental Maths Questions
Year 4 Mental Maths Questions
Write the largest number from the following list: two hundred and fifty-
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seven, three hundred and eighteen, one hundred and ninety-nine.
8. What is the value of the six in the number six hundred and twenty-four?
9. Write the number one hundred less than two hundred and seventy-six.
Write down the number one thousand, four hundred and nine in
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figures.
17. What is two hundred and thirty-two rounded to the nearest hundred.
Calculations
Jane is thinking of a number. If she adds twelve to it she gets forty. What is
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Jane’s number?
7. Five children share seventy cents equally. How much do they each get?
There are fifty-five people on a bus. Sixteen get off. How many people are left
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on the bus?
In a class there are twenty-eight children. If there are fifteen boys, how many
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girls are there?
16. If four times five equals twenty, what is twenty divided by five?
Weight
Write the amount an eight year old boy is most likely to weigh. Choose one
1. from the following: twenty-five kilograms, two hundred and fifty grams or
two hundred and fifty kilograms.
How many grams must be added to four hundred grams to make one
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kilogram?
A packet weighs one kilogram and four hundred grams. What is its weight in
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grams?
Mary uses four hundred grams of pasta from a one kilogram packet. How
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much pasta is left in the packet?
Write the amount an apple is most likely to weigh. Choose the most
5. appropriate weight from the following.
Twenty grams, two hundred grams or two kilograms.
Which of the following weights is the heaviest, fifty grams, one kilogram or
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nine hundred grams?
A packet of biscuits weigh two hundred and fifty grams. What is the weight
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of four packets of biscuits in kilograms?
10. There are four kilograms of potatoes in a bag. How many kilograms of
A banana weighs fifteen grams more than an orange. The orange weighs one
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hundred and ninety grams. What is the weight of the banana?
Paul has two chocolate bars, one weighs ninety grams and the other one
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weighs forty-five grams. What is the total weight of the chocolate bars?
I bought a packet of sweets weighing two hundred and forty grams. I ate half
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of them. How much do I have left?
A sack weighs one kilogram and six hundred grams. How many grams is this
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altogether?
17. How many fifty grams are needed to make one kilogram?
A bag of oranges weighs two kilograms. Each orange weighs two hundred
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grams. How many oranges are in the bag?
Capacity
How many two hundred millilitres glasses you can fill from a one litre carton
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of milk?
What unit would you use to measure how much water does a bottle of water
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holds? Choose one from the following: litres, kilograms or metres.
I have three bottles of water. Each bottle holds five hundred millilitres. How
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many litres of water do I have?
John uses six hundred millilitres of water from a one litre bottle. How much
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water is left in the bottle?
There are two litres of water in one bottle. How many litres of water are
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there in five bottles?
A bucket holds nine litres and five hundred millilitres of liquid. How many
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millilitres is this altogether?
Which unit would you use to measure the capacity of a teaspoon: grams,
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litres or millilitres?
A water bottle holds five hundred millilitres. How many bottles would hold
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exactly one litre?
I bought ten cups of ice cream. Altogether I have two litres of ice cream. How
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many millilitres of ice cream each cup holds?
I have two bottles. Which of them holds the more: the six hundred millilitre
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bottle or the half a litre bottle?
Estimate how much water does a teacup holds? Choose the most appropriate
17. unit from the following: two litres, two hundred millilitres or two hundred
grams.
18. How many litres in two thousand, four hundred and fifty millilitres?
Length
What unites do you use to measure the height of a door: centimetres, metres
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or kilometres?
Two strings are eighty centimetres and fifty centimetres long. What is the
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length in metres and centimetres?
Two pieces of rope are eighty centimetres and thirty-nine centimetres long.
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What is the difference in their length?
From Valletta to Mosta and back is twenty-two kilometres. How far is it from
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Valletta to Mosta?
Which from the following units would you use to measure how tall you are:
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kilograms, metres or litres?
Paul jogs two hundred metres in one minute. How far does he jog in five
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minutes?
Estimate the length of a car. Choose from the following lengths the most
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appropriate: three centimetres, three metres or three millimetres.
How many lengths of ribbon twenty centimetres long can I cut from a one
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metre length of ribbon?
Which from the following units would you use to measure the length of a
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forest: kilometres, metres or centimetres?
Which from the following units would you use to measure the length of a
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garden: kilometres, metres or centimetres?
Which of the following lengths is the longest: one centimetre, one millimetre
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or one metre?
Time
The lunch break starts at quarter past ten and finishes at eleven o’clock. How
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long is the lunch break?
A flight is due to land at nine o’clock. It is fifteen minutes early. At what time
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will it land?
A television programme starts at quarter past eight and lasts for thirty
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minutes. At what time did the programme finish?
13. If it is half past five now what time will it be in fifteen minutes?
17. A boat trip takes forty-eight hours. How many days is that?
Shapes
Which from the following shapes has four right angles: a triangle, a pentagon
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or a square?
6. Write the name of a 2-d shape that has four sides equal.
Which from the following 3-d shapes has no flat faces, no edges and no
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vertices: a cone, a sphere or a cylinder?
14. Imagine a cuboid. Two sides are coloured yellow and the rest are coloured
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blue. How many sides are coloured blue?
Fractions
A rectangle is divided into seven equal parts. Two of the parts are shaded.
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Write this as a fraction.
13. Mary has twenty-four sweets. She gave one third of them to her friend. How
14. I had ten crayons. I lost two of them. What fraction did I loose?
A square is divided into four equal parts; two of the parts are shaded. Write
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the fraction that is shaded.
Money
Chocolate bars cost ten cents each. How many chocolate bars can I buy with
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forty-two cents?
I have a one euro coin and a fifty cent coin. How much money do I have
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altogether?
Tom has eight Euros. He is given another seven Euros. How much does he
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have now?
I buy a sandwich for two Euros and ninety-nine cents and a drink for one
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Euro and ninety-nine cents. How much do they cost altogether?
8. How many five cents coins are needed to make thirty cents?
10. I have one euro and spend fifty-five cents on a copybook, how much will I
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have left?
Amy has five Euros in her purse. She spends one Euro and ninety-nine cents
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on a drink. How much does she have left?
I have one Euro coin. What change do I receive when I buy a rubber for
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thirty-nine cents?
Ten packets of sweets cost one Euro and sixty cents. How much does one
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packet cost?
Tom has fifty-seven cents and Karl has twenty-three cents. How much do
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they have altogether?
17. One ice cream costs eighty-five cents. What do ten ice creams cost?
18. Three packets of sweets cost ninety cents. How much does one packet cost?